SPLM welcomes nomination of Susan Page as new US ambassador
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August 19, 2011 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s ruling party on Friday was
quick to welcome the nomination of Susan Page, to be the United
States’ new ambassador to Africa’s new nation.
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United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Affairs
and ambassadorial nominee to South Sudan (AP)
US president Barack Obama announced on Thursday his intention to
nominate the senior State Department official to become the US’s first
ambassador to South Sudan.
Daniel Awet Akot, Deputy Speaker of South Sudan’s National Assembly
and member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), said he
welcomed Page’s nomination, describing her as an American friend who
stood with the former rebel movement that turned into a political
party.
“She was one of the international activists who helped us during the
war," Akot told Sudan Tribune on Friday.
"She was part of the secretariat and the whole team involved in all
coordination during the [negotiations on the peace] agreement”, the
member of the SPLM’s political bureau said.
The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement brought hostilities to a close
between the SPLM and Khartoum after over two decades of war. The main
provision in the deal gave South Sudan the right to secede through a
referendum which took place earlier this year.
South Sudan became independent on July 9th on the last day of the
deal, following an overwhelming vote for independence.
Dhieu Mathok Diing Wol, another senior member of the SPLM also
commended Page’s nomination and said the new country was lucky to have
a person of her caliber appointed to the post.
“South Sudan is lucky to have somebody like Susan Page as Ambassador
of US at this particular time of our history”, Wol said in an e-mail
seen by Sudan Tribune at the SPLM-Diaspora forum on Friday.
Page currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the
Bureau of African Affairs. Prior to this assignment, she was Regional
Director for Southern and East Africa at the National Democratic
Institute.
>From 2005 to 2007, she served as the Director of the Rule of Law and
Judicial System Advisory Unit at the United Nations Peace Support
Mission to the Sudan. From 2002 to 2005, Ms. Page was the legal
advisor to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Secretariat
for Peace in the Sudan.
Prior to that role, she served as Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of
the Justice and Human Rights Unit for the United Nations Development
Programme in Rwanda. Ms. Page served as a Foreign Service Officer from
1993 to 2001, working as a Political Officer in Rwanda from 1999 to
2001 and as a Regional Legal Adviser for USAID in Botswana (1995-1998)
and Kenya (1993-1995).
Ms. Page began her career at the State Department in 1991, where she
served as an Attorney-Adviser for Politico-Military Affairs in the
Office of the Legal Adviser. Ms. Page received an A.B. from the
University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
She was part of the mediation team put together by a coalition of East
African states that created the CPA, working under General Sumbeiywo
for three years until the agreement was signed in 2005.
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